Sr Manager - m/f/d, Quality Breganze

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​​The Plant Quality Sr. Manager is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction, driving continuous improvement, governing critical processes to achieve business goals, and aligning cross‑functional teams to deliver robust, reliable, and high‑quality products.​ 

Your Impact 

• Lead Site Quality: Lead the site quality function, establish a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement, and develop a site quality strategy aligned with corporate goals 

• Modern Quality Systems: Implement and integrate modern quality methodologies (e.g., APQP) and drive maturity of the ISO9001:2015 system toward proactive quality management 

• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and product development to improve quality outcomes and ensure robust product and process validation 

• Customer & Compliance Focus: Ensure compliance with customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and internal standards; represent plant quality in customer and dealer forums 

• Performance Management: Oversee daily quality performance through KPIs, drive an action‑oriented culture, and deliver improvements in Right First Time, Defects per Unit, and Cost of Poor Quality 

• Reliability Improvement: Eliminate manufacturing‑ and supplier‑caused reliability issues through robust process improvements and strong supplier management 

• Strategic Prioritization: Set clear priorities based on customer impact, severity, frequency, and cost, and drive actions that improve product Net Promoter Scores 

• Supplier Quality Leadership: Ensure supplier readiness for new products, set incoming quality targets, and lead improvement programs with critical or underperforming suppliers 

Your Experience and Qualifications 

• Engineering Degree: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent technical field 

• Quality Expertise: 8+ years of experience in Quality Management, including at least 5 years in a leadership role 

• Complex Manufacturing Experience: Proven background in complex manufacturing environments; experience in automotive or agricultural machinery preferred 

• QMS & Quality Tools: Strong expertise in Quality Management Systems, supplier quality, and field quality processes 

• Language Skills: Fluent English, both written and spoken